The French Ligue 1 after Round 34 – Four laps to go of a three-horse race.

FRENCH LIGUE 1

REIMS 1-3 MARSEILLE
Goal Scorers –
Reims – Nathanael Mbuku 38′
Marseille – Dimitri Payet 41′ 76′ Arkadiusz Milik 45+2′

SAINT-ETIENNE 1-2 BREST
Goal Scorers –
Saint-Etienne – Whabi Khazri 11′
Brest – Gaëtan Charbonnier 66′ 79′

METZ 1-3 PARIS ST. GERMAIN
Goal Scorers –
Metz – Fabien Centonze 46′
Paris St. Germain – Kylian Mbappe 4′ 59′ Mauro Icardi 89′

NICE 3-1 MONTPELLIER
Goal Scorers –
Nice – Hichem Boudaoui 6′ Jean-Clair Todibo 39′ Alexis Claude 40′
Montpellier Gaëtan Laborde 3′

LENS 2-1 NIMES
Goal Scorers –
Lens – Ignatius Ganago 17′ Massadio Haidara 76′
Nimes – Zinedin Ferhat 52′(pen)

LORIENT 4-1 BORDEAUX
Goal Scorers –
Lorient – Yoane Wissa 18′ Terem Moffi 20′ 43′ 80′
Bordeaux -Issouf Sissokho 83′

RENNES 5-1 DIJON
Goal Scorers –
Rennes – Martin Terrier 15′ 71′ Flavien Tait 72′ Gerzino Nyamsi 81′ Clement Gernier 90+2′
Dijon – Yassin Benzia 9′(pen)

STRASBOURG 1-2 NANTES
Goal Scorers –
Strasbourg – Ludovic Ajorque 43′
Nnates – Jean-Charles Castelletto 53′ Ludovic Blas 76′

ANGERS 0-1 MONACO
Goal Scorers –
Monaco – Wissam Ben Yedder 79′

LYON 2-3 LILLE
Goal Scorers –
Lyon – Islam Slimani 20′ Jose Fonte 35′(og)
Lille – Bural Yilmaz 45+1′ 85′ Jonathan David 60′

Lyon were pushed further out of the title race contention after Lille came from 2 goals down to pick up three points.
After 34 rounds of the 38 played, it’s a three-horse race in the French Ligue 1.

Four games left.
The gaps between the top three teams stayed as they were.

The final four rounds of the season for the ‘top 3’ in the league.

Lille
Nice (H)
Lens (A)
Saint-Etienne (H)
Angers (A)

Paris St. Germain
Lens (H)
Rennes (A)
Reims (H)
Brest (A)

Monaco
Lyon (H)
Reims (A)
Rennes (H)
Lens (A)


LEADING GOALSCORERS
Kylian Mbappe (Paris St. Germain) – 25 goals
Wissam Ben Yedder (Monaco) – 18 goals
Memphis Depay (Lyon) – 18 goals

Marseille came from a goal down and took a 2-1 win into the break at Reims. It finished a 3-1 win for Marseille after Dimitri Payet scored his second goal of the match.

Gaetan Charbonnier ‘s two goals got Brest from a goal down to secure three points in a 2-1 away victory over Saint-Etienne. The result made it a league double for Brest and placed them a point above Saint-Etienne in the standings.

Kylian Mbappe scored early and doubled it in the second to restore the lead for Paris St. Germain at Metz. It finished a 3-1 win when Mauro Icardi added a late goal from the penalty spot. Important three points for a Paris St. Germain side that are looking for a treble.

Nice quickly got back from an early goal down to end the opening half leading 3 goals to 1. A goalless second half secured the three points for Nice to narrow the gap between them and Montpellier to a point.

Nimes are kept in the relegation zone after defeat at Lens. The ‘2-1’ win made it 13 league games unbeaten for Lens.

Terem Moffi scored a hattrick to add to Yoane Wissa game opening goal for Lorient to secure three points from a 4-1 victory against Bordeaux. The result pulled Lorient to a point away from Bordeaux in the standings, while handing marking Bordeaux’s 5th straight defeat since their win against bottom-table Dijon.

It was bound to happen. Dijon were relegated after getting hammered 5-1 at Rennes.

In their fight to survive relegation, Nantes ended a three game losing streak after coming from a goal down to a win at Strasbourg.
Wissam Ben Yedder’s 18th league goal of the season was all Monaco needed to get the three points from a win at Angers.

Lille showed the trait of champions after recovering from a 2-gap; deficit to secure the win in Lyon. Lyon needed a win to close in on Champions League qualification, while Lille couldn’t afford anything but a win if they wanted to remain at the top of the league standings at the end of the round. Burak Yilmaz scored from a freekick at the end of the half to cut the deficit in half for Lille before the break, and scored at the end of the second-half to secure the win.